That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in sports, basketball, football, nothing.
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Jazz went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's always jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes you put on her, she's the same old broad.Lionel Hampton
I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
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